First, major props to all of you who do this for a living. It is hard work!!! My husband and I learned many times over how having the right tools and getting through the learning curve are essential to success - but laying our own hardwood floors is one of the most challenging - and will hopefully be - the most rewarding thing we've done in our home.

Now for the problem (oh, we've had many). We're happy with the floor, have about one and a half rows left to lay, were watching the spacers on the edges for gaps that were too big ... and lo and behold we've got a spacing problem.

Along the original/starting wall, parallel to how the boards are running, we've got a situation where it appears that the floor has moved outwards from the wall about 1/2 inch, leaving a 1 inch gap between the baseboard and the edge of the first row whereas it was supposed to be 1/2 inch. Is there any way, short of installing HUGE quarter round, that we can fix this. I'm scared that the answer is to undo our work so far (floating floors) and redo, watching that gap more closely. Any suggestion is welcomed. We have 17 rows of our 18.5 row floor done, and noticed this before going to bed last night.

I can provide pictures upon request. Thanks in advance for your help!

Why not try pushing the floor back? Since it's a floating floor, just remove your spacers, get a few people along the last installed row and push the floor toward the wall were the gap is. If you push too far and hit the wall, use a pry bar to gently push floor back away from the wall.

Hehehehe!, I've been there. The first floating laminate floor I ever installed!!!


From then on, I weighted down my starting rows, and check often.


Like gary said, try pushing and prying. Torque it just enough.

Gosh, I don't know how in the world we could push this floor. Its Kahrs engineered maple and must weigh several hundred pounds... if it was that cheapo Pergo I could see pushing it, but this stuff - not with only about 1 and a half feet left of subfloor exposed.

Weighing it down to start with is a fab idea though.. and we'll remember that for our next room. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Get about 4 people with tennis shoes on. All get together and in sync, to make a running jump so when you all land it forces the floor the direction you want.

It may take one jump, it may take ten.

Use a car jack and some long 2x4's. Put a 2 x4 on the wall and one one the floor, lay the jack side ways and pump away. It'll work!

ALLRIGHT, THATS ENOUGH! Gary, where does she say it is floating? You're scaring me..

Read again SK! Third paragraph in parethethis (floating floors). I've read her posts before. It's a Kahr's floor (floating). What would you do?